Seed-gathering attachment for mowers.



V. M. JACKSON. SEED GATHBRING ATTACHMENT Pon MoWERs.

APPLICATION FILED APB.26, 1913.

1,071,554, Patented Aug. 26, 1913.

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UNITED STATES VINCENT M, 'JAcKsorL or LAUREL HILL, LoUI'sIANA.

SEED-GATHERING ATTACHMENT FOB,A MOWERS.,

Application led April 26, 1913. Serial No. 763,768.

To all lwhom, it may concern Be it known that I, ViNcnN'r M. JACK- soN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Laurel Hill, in the parish of West Feliciana and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and Improved Seed-Gather# ing Attachment for Mowers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates t-o a seed gathering attachment for mowing machines arranged to have support from the finger bar of the`l lnower, to be adjustable vertically of the latter, a frame member of the attachment being adapted for mounting on the axle of ,the mower so that in the adjustment of the finger bar, the attachmentwill swing with the said axle as a center, there being a beater reel operating over the seed box and driven from the said axle.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding partsy in both the views. y

Figure 1' is aperspective view of the attachment, the View including a wheel and axle of the mower, and the finger bar thereof; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section.

In constructing an attachment in accordance with my invention a seed box 10 is provided, 'which gradually deepens from the front end rearwardly. The front end of the seed box is secured by any suit-able means 'to the finger bar 11 of the mower, and is provided with rear wheels 12. The reel shaftl is mounted at one end on an arm 14, the rear end of which is adapted to be supported on the axle 15 of the mower, While the front end of said arm is pivotally connected with a postor'standard 16 that rises from the front end of the box 10. The opposite end of the shaft 13 is supported in a suitable frame or arm 17 on the outer side of the box 10. Radial arms 18extend from the shaft 13 and carry cross bars 19, which preferably are provided with beater fingers 20, said bars and fingers moving, when rotated, over the box 10and serving to engage the grass and press it down over the box as `the latter advances in the rear ofthe finger bar 11. The beating of the grass serves to detach the seed, and co-acting with the beater members, brushes are employed, preferably one brush for each rcross bar 19 and set of fingers 20. The brush may consist'of a head 21 secured by arms 218L to a bar 19, and having bristles 22 or their equivalent extending outwardly slightly beyond the ends of the fingers 20, so that the brushes will sweep the top 23 of the box. Said top consists of a suitable screen, .preferably formed of wire mesh, which will permit the passage therethrough of the seed, while excluding the grass, the result being that as the reel beats down-'the grass onto the top 23, the follower'brushes will press the 'seed through the said topl and throw the grass over the rear edge of the box.

Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented Aug. 26,1913.

To rotate the reel shaft 13, the latter is provided with a sprocket wheel 24, yover which a sprocket lchain 25 runs, said chain running also over a sprocket wheel 26 rotating with the adjacent running wheel-'27 of the mower, said wheel being shown conventionally in the present instance.

The described supporting means for. the attachment, and the driving connections, permit of the box 10 and the frame elements and reel accommodating themselves to the usual vertical adjustmentl provided for the finger bar 1 1, the front end of the box rising and lowering with the finger bar, and the box rocking on its supporting rear running wheels 12, while the inner arm 14 will swing with the axle 15 as a center, and its outer end have pivotal movement relatively to the supporting standard 16.

The screen top 23 is coneaved and its curvature preferably is such that the brush 22 will sweep in direct contact with the said top from the front of the to to a point short o f the rear end, so that. tiie brush will leave the top before reaching the rear end of the latter, thereby giving any seed remaining on the t'op a` tendency to ret-urn by gravity and rollover the top toward the front end so that .the seed will either fall through the openings in the top, or be.

brushed therethrough by successive actions of the brushes.

It will be observed thatI the attachment is'of exceedingly simple construction and readily applied and removed, as required.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent;

1. A seed gathering attachment for mowers, comprising a seed box adapted for connection at its front end with the finger bar of a mower, said box having a concaved screen top and deepening toward the rear end, running Wheels at the rear end of the box, frame members rising from the box at the outside thereof and at the inner side, an arm extending from the frame member at the inner side and pivotally connected thereto and adapted at its rear end for support on the axle of the mower` a reel shaft supported on the outer frame member and on .ielsaid arm. a reel on said shaft, means for i revolving the shaft from a rotary'part of the mower, the reel having beater members moving in a ath adjacent to the screen top of the seed ox, and brushes on the reel traveling in the rear of the beater members and adapted for sweeping contact with the said top.

2. A seed gathering attachment for mowers, comprislng a seed box adapted at its front end for attachment with the finger bar of a mower, and deepening at its rear end, said box having a concavedscreen top, frame members, a reel supported on said -frame members and having beater elements movable in a path adjacent to the concaved top of the seed box, the frame members including an arm adapted at its rear end for l thereon, and means for a mower toL swing revolving the reel from a rotary part of the mower.

3. A seed gathering attachment for mowers, comprising a frame, a seed box connected with the lower end of the frame, said' seed box'having a concaved screen top, a reel mounted in said frame and having beater members movable in a path adjacent to the concaved top of the seed box, means support on the axle of lfor supporting said frame from a mower,

and means for driving the reel from a rotary part of the mower.

4. A seed gathering attachment for mowers, comprising a frame, a seed box connected with the lower end of the frame, said seed box having a concaved screen top, a reel mounted in said frame and having beater members movable in a path adjacent tothe concaved top of the seed box, means for supporting said frame from a mower, and means for driving the reel from a rotaryT 'part of the mower, said reel having brushes ""ollo'vving the beater. elements and adapted 'for contact with the concavd top of the seed box,

V In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribin witnesses.

INCENT M. JACKSON. Witnesses:

J. R. MATTHEWS, D. Nonwoon.

- Washington, D. C.

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